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            <h1>Install and Configure nginx on Windows</h1>
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          <h2>Installing and Running nginx</h2>

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	<li>Download nginx for Windows <a href="http://nginx.org/en/download.html" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
	<li>Extract the downloaded .zip file</li>
	<li>Rename the extracted folder nginx</li>
	<li>Copy the extracted nginx files to the desired location, for example C:\Program Files\nginx</li>
	<li>Open the nginx folder and double click nginx.exe to run the server</li>
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<h2>Adding PHP Support</h2>

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	<li><label for="cb_li_410392_0">Download Microsoft Visual C++</label><label for="cb_li_410392_0"><a href="https://aka.ms/vs/16/release/vc_redist.x64.exe" target="_blank">Download</a></label></li>
	<li>Download PHP for Windows (VC15 x64 NTS)&nbsp;<a href="http://windows.php.net/download/" target="_blank">Download</a></li>
	<li>Install Microsoft Visual C++</li>
	<li>Extract the downloaded .zip file</li>
	<li>Rename the extracted folder php</li>
	<li>Copy the extracted php folder to the desired location, for example C:\Program Files\PHP</li>
	<li>Open the php install location and right click in the white space while holding down the Shift key &gt; Open PowerShell window here</li>
	<li>Paste the following command in the PowerShell window to start the PHP CGI process
	<div class="codeBlock">.\php-cgi.exe -b 127.0.0.1:9123</div>
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	<li>Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the nginx installation directory /conf</li>
	<li>Edit nginx.conf in a text editor</li>
	<li>Add the following lines inside the server object
	<p>location ~ \.php$ {<br />
	&nbsp; &nbsp; fastcgi_pass &nbsp; 127.0.0.1:9123;<br />
	&nbsp; &nbsp; fastcgi_index &nbsp;index.php;<br />
	&nbsp; &nbsp; fastcgi_param &nbsp;SCRIPT_FILENAME &nbsp;$document_root$fastcgi_script_name;<br />
	&nbsp; &nbsp; include &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;fastcgi_params;<br />
	}</p>
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	<li>Save the changes to nginx.conf</li>
	<li>Right click the Start button &gt; Run &gt; Type taskkill /f /im &quot;nginx.exe&quot; &gt; Press Enter</li>
	<li>Double click nginx.exe to restart the process with PHP support</li>
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<h2>Running nginx Server on Startup</h2>

<p>nginx doesn&#39;t currently have the ability to run as a Windows service natively. A simple workaround is to create a scheduled task to start the nginx server on system startup</p>

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	<li>Open notepad and paste the following into a blank text file<br />
	start &quot;&quot; /b &quot;C:\Program Files\PHP\php-cgi.exe&quot; -b 127.0.0.1:9123<br />
	start &quot;&quot; /b &quot;C:\Program Files\nginx\nginx.exe&quot; -c &quot;C:\Program Files\nginx\conf\nginx.conf&quot;</li>
	<li>Save the text file as startup.bat in the nginx installation directory</li>
	<li>Click the Start button &gt; Search Task &gt; Click Task Scheduler</li>
	<li>Right click the Task Scheduler Library folder in the top left &gt; Create Basic Task</li>
	<li>Name the task nginx startup &gt; Click Next</li>
	<li>Select When the computer starts &gt; Click Next</li>
	<li>Select Start a program &gt; Click Next</li>
	<li>Click the Browse... button and navigate to&nbsp;C:\Program Files\nginx\startup.bat</li>
	<li>Set the Start in value to&nbsp;C:\Program Files\nginx &gt; Click Next</li>
	<li>Click Finish</li>
	<li>Reboot to test that nginx with PHP support starts with the system on boot</li>
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<p>Source:&nbsp;<a href="http://nginx.org/en/docs/windows.html" target="_blank">http://nginx.org/en/docs/windows.html</a></p>          </div>
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